The Rover Boys at Colby Hall - or The Struggles of the Young Cadets

Edward Stratemeyer

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• Publié le: 01 décembre 2010
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Project Gutenberg's The Rover Boys at Colby Hall, by Arthur M. Winfield This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Rover Boys at Colby Hall or The Struggles of the Young Cadets Author: Arthur M. Winfield Release Date: June 21, 2007 [EBook #21894] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ROVER BOYS AT COLBY HALL *** Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of public domain material produced by Microsoft for their Live Search Books site.) Jack managed to get the ball and start with it for the goal. The Rover Boys at Colby Hall. Frontispiece—Page 223 THE ROVER BOYS AT COLBY HALL OR THE STRUGGLES OF THE YOUNG CADETS By ARTHUR M. WINFIELD (Edward Stratemeyer) AUTHOR OF "THE ROVER BOYS AT SCHOOL," "THE ROVER BOYS ON THE OCEAN," "THE PUTNAM HALL SERIES," ETC. ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS Made in the United States of America BOOKS BY ARTHUR M. W INFIELD (Edward Stratemeyer) THE FIRST ROVER BOYS SERIES THE ROVER BOYS AT SCHOOL THE ROVER BOYS ON THE OCEAN THE ROVER BOYS IN THE JUNGLE THE ROVER BOYS OUT WEST THE ROVER BOYS ON THE GREAT LAKES THE ROVER BOYS IN THE MOUNTAINS THE ROVER BOYS IN CAMP THE ROVER BOYS ON LAND AND SEA THE ROVER BOYS ON THE RIVER THE ROVER BOYS ON THE PLAINS THE ROVER BOYS IN SOUTHERN WATERS THE ROVER BOYS ON THE FARM THE ROVER BOYS ON TREASURE ISLE THE ROVER BOYS AT COLLEGE THE ROVER BOYS DOWN EAST THE ROVER BOYS IN THE AIR THE ROVER BOYS IN NEW YORK THE ROVER BOYS IN ALASKA THE ROVER BOYS IN BUSINESS THE ROVER BOYS ON A TOUR THE SECOND ROVER BOYS SERIES THE ROVER BOYS AT COLBY HALL THE PUTNAM HALL SERIES THE PUTNAM HALL CADETS THE PUTNAM HALL RIVALS THE PUTNAM HALL CHAMPIONS THE PUTNAM HALL REBELLION THE PUTNAM HALL ENCAMPMENT THE PUTNAM HALL MYSTERY 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers, New York COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY EDWARD STRATEMEYER The Rover Boys at Colby Hall INTRODUCTION MY DEAR BOYS: This book is a complete story in itself, but forms the first volume in a line issued under the general title, "The Second Rover Boys Series for Young Americans." As mentioned in several of the other volumes of the first series, this line was started a number of years ago with the publication of "The Rover Boys at School," in which my readers were introduced to Dick, Tom, and Sam Rover, three wide-awake American lads. In that volume and in those which followed I gave the particulars of their adventures while attending Putnam Hall Military Academy, Brill College, and while on numerous outings, both in our own country and abroad. The Rover boys were, of course, growing older; and, having met three young ladies very much to their liking, each married and settled down, as related in detail in the several volumes immediately preceding this. They were well established in business; and in due course of time Dick Rover was blessed with a son, as was also Sam, while the fun-loving Tom became the proud possessor of a pair of twins who were as full of life as their father had ever been. In this volume the younger Rover boys are old enough to go to boarding school. They are sent to Colby Hall Military Academy, presided over by an old friend and schoolmate of their fathers; and there they make both friends and enemies, and have numerous adventures. In the beginning this chronicle of the younger Rovers, I wish to thank my numerous readers for all the kind things they have said about the other volumes in these series, and I trust that they will make just as good friends of Jack, Andy and Randy, and Fred as they did of Dick, Tom, and Sam Rover. Affectionately and sincerely yours, EDWARD STRATEMEYER. CONTENTS PAGE I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. XIX. XX. XXI. XXII. XXIII. XXIV. XXV. XXVI. XXVII. XXVIII. XXIX. XXX. INTRODUCING THE YOUNGER ROVERS SOMETHING OF THE PAST W HAT FOLLOWED ANOTHER TRICK JACK IN W ALL STREET GETTING READY TO LEAVE ON THE TRAIN A SCENE IN THE DINING CAR AT COLBY HALL THE MISSING SUITCASE GETTING ACQUAINTED DOWN IN THE CORNFIELD LEARNING TO DRILL FRED IS FOLLOWED THE FIGHT IN THE TOWN AT THE MOVING PICTURE THEATER THE GIRLS FROM CLEARWATER HALL SLUGGER BROWN IS EXPOSED A SQUALL ON THE LAKE IN GREAT PERIL ASSISTANCE REFUSED THE MEETING WITH HIXLEY HIGH TARGET PRACTICE THE FUN OF HALLOWE'EN OFF ON A HUNT FROM ONE TROUBLE TO ANOTHER ELIAS LACY'S DEMAND IN THE GUARDROOM THE EXPOSURE A FOOTBALL VICTORY—CONCLUSION 1 13 24 35 45 54 65 76 88 98 109 119 129 139 148 157 167 178 187 197 206 216 226 235 245 254 265 274 284 296 THE ROVER BOYS AT COLBY HALL CHAPTER I INTRODUCING THE YOUNGER ROVERS "For gracious sake! what's that racket?" exclaimed Dick Rover, as he threw down the newspaper he was reading and leaped to his feet. "Sounds to me as if there was a battle royal going on," returned his younger brother, Sam, who was at a desk in the library of the old farmhouse, writing a letter. "It's those boys!" exclaimed Tom Rover, as he tossed aside a copy of a comic paper which he had been looking over. "I'll wager they're up to some mischief again." "Well, if they are your boys, Tom, you mustn't find fault with them," answered Sam Rover, with a twinkle in his eye. "If ever there were chips of the old block, your twins are It with a capital I." "Humph!" snorted Tom Rover. "I don't think Andy and Randy are much ahead of your Fred when it comes to playing tricks, and I think Dick's Jack can hold up his end too." "Never mind about that just now," broke in Dick Rover, hastily. "Let's go out and see what those kids are up to." "All right. But don't be too severe with 'em," pleaded Tom Rover. "Remember, boys will be boys." "That's true, Tom. But we've got to take 'em in hand sooner or later," remonstrated his brother Sam. "If we don't, they'll grow up the wildest bunch ever known." A number of cries of alarm and protest, mingled with fierce cheering, had reached the house from the garden just beyond the broad veranda. As the three Rover brothers hurried